Eye Opener

Psalms 79:1 (KJV) [[A Psalm of Asaph.]] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

(Proverbs 12 also read)

When I come to scripture, I come with certain assumptions.  One of the assumptions I have would be that David wrote Psalms and Solomon wrote Proverbs.  That is not a valid assumption, and the Bible itself tells me so.  I don’t know if Sunday school teachers told me this or preachers or I just assumed it.  It is wrong.

As I read this recently, with my eyes open and my brain turned on I noticed what this is describing.  It is describing Jerusalem being destroyed and the Temple being defiled.  That did not happen before Solomon, because Solomon build the temple.  It didn’t happen during Solomon’s life.  In fact, we have to move forward in time past the fall of the northern kingdom, and into the deportation of the southern kingdom.  For this Psalm to have been written with these details it is either prophecy or looking back after the deportation.

I don’t see any evidence of prophecy here, or anything to be prophetic about.  There is no admission of repentance.  There’s simply calling on God to bail them out.

So?  Never turn off your brain.  Never assume that what they told you in Sunday school was totally accurate.  There is no mention of Mary riding a donkey.  There is no statement of how many wise men there were.  Don’t be afraid to learn new things and expand your understanding.  What an adventure.